American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution /
Nina Sankovitch's American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution. Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Jun...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2020].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Tinder (1744-1764)
- Prologue: A Village Mourns
- Founding a Village
- The Education of Boys
- Worldly Goods, Heavenly Debates
- The Education of Girls
- Changing Fortunes
- Colonial Enthusiasms
- Part two: Spark (1765-1773)
- The Mobs of Boston
- Warmest Lovers of Liberty
- A Watchful Spirit
- The Arrival of Troops
- Portents of a Comet
- Pressing Forward
- Mayhem and Massacre
- On Trial
- Retreat to Braintree
- Patriots Assemble
- Branching Out
- Anxiety and Apprehensions
- Tea, That Baneful Weed
- Part three: Flame (1774-1776)
- Rocks and Quicksands on Every Side
- Punishment and Indignation
- Grand Object of Their View
- In the Cause of Liberty
- On This Island, This England
- Sharpening Quills and Swords
- Ship in a Storm
- Lexington and Concord
- Clouds over Boston
- The Unhappy Contest
- Complications of Evil and Misfortune
- Surrender of Boston
- Debating Separation
- The Signature of Independence
- Epilogue: Friends to Mankind.